Ultra-low loss Si3N4 waveguides with low nonlinearity and high power handling capability

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 23562-23568

  Tien, Ming Chun ^a   Bauter, Jared F ^a   Martijn J R Heck, ^a   Blumenthal, Daniel J ^a   Bowers, John E ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXWELL EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON; WAVE EQUATIONS;

CONTINUOUS WAVES; HIGH POWER HANDLING CAPABILITY; LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL; LOW LOSS; NON-LINEARITY; OPTICAL INTENSITIES; REFRACTIVE-INDEX PERTURBATION; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; THIRD-ORDER NON-LINEARITY;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 78149452152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.023562     Document Type: Article

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